Dressing and undressing a hire-car chauffeur was part of a kidnapping plot successfully engineered in broad daylight yesterday in the western "outside roads" area, A gang of four Chinese, all armed with pistols, committed the bold crime and are now presumably hiding with their victim somewhere in the badlands.
The band started operations at 1l O'cloek yesterday morning when they kidnapped the driver in a lane off Jessfield Road and stripped him of his uniform. One of the gangsters put on the chauffeur's clothes and seated himself at the wheel. The real driver was placed in the back of the car and told to keep quiet.
Counterfeit bank notes purporting to be issued by the Bank of China and very much like genuine anes have been printed and distributed in Shanghai, it was revealed yesterday in the First Special District Court when two forger suspects, in whose possession many fake notes were ionnd, were brought before the tribunal by the Wayside police for trial. Judgment was reserved pending further investigations during which the police wish to discover the printing plant.
Wang Ching-lin, one of the accused, was recently trapped by an assistant of a detective who posed as a customer of fake notes. After negotiations, it was alleged, Wang was to give him $83 in counterfeit. notes near the Sinza Bridge which he did. As soon as the fake notes
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